The RSS has gone back on the promise to keep off politics | Vidya Subrahmaniam

The Hindu, October 8, 2013

The forgotten promise of 1949

Vidya Subrahmaniam

The RSS wrote a non-political role for itself as part of an undertaking it gave Sardar Patel. The overt political role it has assumed in 2013 is a breach of that agreement and its own constitution

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s constitution explicitly states that it will stay clear of politics. The constitution